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Golden Radio Hour
Science fiction radio used the freedom of sound to travel far beyond the limits of a studio set. Golden Radio Hour includes landmark American anthologies, experimental radio drama, BBC science fiction and later audio adaptations that revisit classic speculative stories.
Program guides that represent this listening collection especially well.
PROGRAM GUIDENBC's classic science-fiction anthology adapted stories by major genre writers and presented original scripts about space, aliens, future societies, technology, and the…
PROGRAM GUIDENBC science-fiction anthology adapting stories by leading genre writers alongside original radio scripts, with tales of space travel, alien contact, future societies,…
PROGRAM GUIDEFull-cast audio adaptations that revisit stories associated with The Twilight Zone for radio, using a recurring host and new performers while preserving…
PROGRAM GUIDEA pioneering adult science-fiction anthology built around original stories of future technology, space travel, scientific experiments, and the consequences of invention.
PROGRAM GUIDEA library collection of BBC science-fiction dramatizations, ranging from classic literary adaptations to original radio plays. It is a compilation rather than…
PROGRAM GUIDECBC's imaginative anthology moves between science fiction, horror, psychological drama, mystery, and fantasy, using both original plays and literary adaptations to explore…
PROGRAM GUIDEDouglas Adams's BBC science-fiction comedy follows the bewildered Arthur Dent after Earth is destroyed, sending him across the galaxy with Ford Prefect…
PROGRAM GUIDECBS's mid-1950s experimental radio anthology, using drama, documentary techniques, sound, music, and literary adaptation to explore what storytelling could do in the…
Representative recordings from the existing Golden Radio Hour episode archive.
A test pilot returns from an extraordinary flight carrying a grave warning for humanity.
A planet that has never known darkness experiences a rare eclipse, and the sight of the stars drives civilization toward madness.
A proud pool shark challenges the legendary champion he has spent his life trying to surpass, only to find the dead man answering the call and raising the…
Two boys who are refused permission to make a trip to Mars decide to take matters into their own hands, putting together a rocket of their own and…
On holiday in Jamaica, a woman becomes fascinated by fellow traveler Stanley Teagarden and his obsession with creating the perfect personality test. The deeper she probes into his…
Aldous Huxley introduces and narrates the first half of his dystopian future in AF 632, where science has displaced nature, drugs have displaced morality, and social stability depends…
X Minus One and Dimension X anchor the classic network-radio side of the collection, while BBC and CBC material broadens the timeline and style of the archive.
Experimental anthologies such as Columbia Workshop and CBS Radio Workshop appear where their speculative work makes them useful pathways into science-fiction listening, even though those programs also cross into other forms.
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Norman Rose
Orson Welles